APPLE
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered
in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics computer software and
personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media
player, the I
Phone smart
phone and the I
pad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes
the OS X and I OS operating
systems the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the I
Life and I Work creativity and productivity suites. Apple is the world's second-largest
information technology company by revenue
after Samsung Electronics and the world's
third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia.
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MACBOOK AIR: Consumer ultra-thin, ultra-portable notebook,
introduced in 2008.
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MACBOOK PRO: Professional notebook, introduced in 2006.
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MAC MINI: Consumer sub-desktop computer and server, introduced in
2005.
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I MAC: Consumer all-in one desktop computer, introduced in 1998.
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MAC PRO: Workstation desktop computer, introduced in 2006.
Apple sells a variety of computer accessories
for Macs, including thunderbolt
display magic
mouse ,magic trackpad wireless keyboard, battery charger the
AirPort wireless networking products, and time capsule.
On January 27, 2010, Apple introduced their much-anticipated
media tablet, the I
Pad, running a modified version of I OS. It offers
multi-touch interaction with multimedia formats including newspapers, magazines
e books textbooks photos movies videos of TV shows, music, word processing
documents, spreadsheets, videogames, and most existing I Phone apps. It also includes a mobile version of Safari for web browsing, as well as access to the App Store, I Tunes Library, I
Bookstore, contacts, and notepad. Content is
downloadable via Wi-Fi and optional 3Gservice or synced through the user's computer. AT&T was initially the sole US provider of 3G wireless access
for the I Pad. On March 2, 2011, Apple introduced the I Pad 2
which had a faster processor and a camera on the front and back. It also added
support for optional 3G service provided by Verizon in addition to the existing offering by AT&T. On March 7, 2012, Apple introduced the third-generation I
Pad. On October 23, 2012, Apple's fourth-generation I Pad came out.
Apple currently sells four variants of the iPod: